Compass

Never

Never is always cruel.
Why do we do it to each other?
Never is a fool.
That's why we call God to order.

Somehow Nature's not to blame -
someone/ something set her up.
Yet now we must all drink
from that same bitter cup.

You never me, so I never you.
Someone closes their eyes, grey-out, through.
Oh, yes, the fairies die when you say never.
That only seems to bother you in summer.

Never (repeated five times) - a bleak line
wrapped round a neck, and a futurity.
A dying whale, taking his Ahab time
grieving a daughter of the roaring sea.

Never say never to me.

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